The Remains

Here is a great news item from
singer/songwriter Bill Lloyd of Nashville,
Tennessee

Barry and The Remains Reunite

It happens every Monday night at 12th
and Porter in Nashville, Tennessee. Daniel
Tashian hosts an evening of music called
Twelve At Twelve (12 acts..12 time slots..
12th and Porter..) that stylistically runs
the gamut between punk, pop, folk, country
and just about any genre-hybrid one can
dream up. Most Nashville songwriter nights
are filled with hopefuls who want to score
big on the country radio charts, so this is a
big part of that "other" musical community.
Acts who want to play the allotted two songs
contact Daniel and try to score one of the
twelve slots to do what they do. Get on and
get off. Next band. Thank you. One particular
Monday night, July 31st, something occurred
that broke the flow of new young faces vying
for attention. Up jump a bunch of middle aged
guys who get up and rock the joint in a '60s
garage rock combo kind of way that ís obviously
the real thing. I hear fragments of conversation
around me...it is Daniel's dads band... hey... they
rock... and, more than once, they opened for
The Beatles.

All true enough. It ís a quick glimpse at some
rock n roll history being made. It ís the reunion of
Barry and The Remains.

Luckily for nepotism, Daniel allowed for a three song
set. They were allowed the extra song.. seeing how
it WAS Dad and the fact that it was, truly, an event.
All the original members of The Remains playing together
again in this one-off unpublicized performance. They
opened with an arrangement of Hang On Sloopy which
included a Yardbirds-styled rave-up that illicited screams
from girls who weren't even born when these guys were
recording and touring in 1965. A version of Dylanís "Like
A Rolling Stone" was next and over all too quickly.
They capped their set off with their strongest
performance of one of Barry Tashian's originals,
"Why Do I Cry".. sounding remarkably like the record.

The young crowd was screaming for an encore from a
band that's only played a handful of times since the mid-'60s.
Even host, Young Tashian, said that he had never even
heard them play live before. While fans yelled requests
for their most well known song, "Dont Look Back"
(a regional hit in the Northeast in '66 and featured on
the famous Lenny Kaye Nuggets compillation), the band
packed up quickly and made a hasty exit. The good news
for fans of '60s garage-pop is that they're working on
a record for the first time in thirty years.

I was just happy to be there.

Bill Lloyd 9/00

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